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April 10, 2017
Sean Spicer can’t possibly mean what he just said about Syria. Can he?
Either Spicer is full of it or Trump is going to bomb Syria pretty much every day.
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April 10, 2017
Trump aide admits there actually isn’t a “Trump doctrine”
It took less than three months for some Trump aides to figure that out.
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April 10, 2017
Obama’s anti-ISIS envoy on why Trump desperately needs a Syria strategy
A retired US general who led the anti-ISIS effort on what Obama did wrong and on Trump.
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April 9, 2017
What Trump's Syria strike means for his war on ISIS
Will the US end up in two wars instead of one?
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April 7, 2017
“Democrats are acting like a bunch of cowards”: Trump’s Syria strike opens a rift on the left
Some progressive organizations are furious that senior Democratic leadership has endorsed Trump’s attacks in Syria.
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April 7, 2017
The US strike against Syria: what we know so far
It’s the first direct US attack against the Assad regime since the country’s civil war began.
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April 7, 2017
Does Trump need congressional approval to strike Syria? The debate, explained.
It’s often easier, Congress has found, to just let the president do what he wants.
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April 7, 2017
"I think it was completely justified" — a former Obama Pentagon official on Trump's Syria attack
Why Trump’s attack may have been justified but could still backfire.
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April 7, 2017
Trump’s strike on Syria was also a major blow to his relationship with Russia
Moscow has dropped a policy that helps prevents midair collisions with US fighters in Syria.
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April 7, 2017
The big Republican shift on Syria, in one presidential debate
What key Republicans said about Syria in a 2015 primary debate, and how they’re responding now.
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April 7, 2017
Trump brought his economics team to his Syria strike watch party, for some reason
Packing the room by any means necessary.
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April 7, 2017
Trump’s Syria strike is part of a broader pivot toward the Gulf states’ worldview
Dropping Obama’s ambivalence brings short-term gains and long-term risks.
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April 7, 2017
Here’s how leaders around the world are responding to the strike on Syria
Support was nearly universal.
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April 7, 2017
Trump’s foreign policy is dangerously impulsive
Trump needs a foreign policy, not just reactions to what he sees on cable news.
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April 7, 2017
Donald Trump is now charting his own path as commander in chief
Trump ordered the Pentagon to bomb a Syrian airfield. The truly hard work is just beginning.
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April 6, 2017
Some of Trump’s biggest supporters are furious about his strikes in Syria
The alt-right, anti-interventionist Trump supporters are not happy with the president.
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April 6, 2017
How top Republicans and Democrats in Congress are reacting to the Syria strikes
Both praise and criticism of President Trump’s decision have poured in.
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April 6, 2017
Paul Ryan 2013: Syrian strikes would look weak. Ryan 2017: Assad must be held accountable.
Republican lawmakers are supporting Trump’s missile strike. They sure didn’t support them when Obama asked.
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April 6, 2017
Why Trump is bombing Syria, explained in 2 sentences
The logic behind the US’s seemingly limited strike on the Syrian regime.
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April 6, 2017
The Pentagon just released video of the US attack on Syria
Trump ordered the attack after the Syrian government launched a chemical weapon attack on civilians.
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April 6, 2017
President Trump speaks after ordering attack on Syria
The US strikes came after the Syrian government used chemical weapons on civilians.
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April 6, 2017
The best way the US could help Syrians: open the borders
Bombing is rarely the best way to help people.
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April 6, 2017
The United States has officially attacked Syria
It’s the first intentional US bombing of Bashar al-Assad’s forces.
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April 6, 2017
Vox Sentences: Trump is weighing military action against Syria
Trump considers military action against Assad; McConnell goes nuclear in the Senate; China’s Xi Jinping visits Mar-a-Lago.
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April 5, 2017
Bashar al-Assad just gassed his own people, then bombed the clinic treating victims
A poison gas attack in Syria has killed at least 74 — including 16 women and 23 children — and wounded over 350.